Geospatially Enabled Solutions for ‘All Hazards' Incident Management

Robert H. Scott, III, P.E.
Intergraph Corporation, Reston, VA

Disaster Management and Emergency Response II
Monday March 5, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm

Having a clear picture of unfolding situations on the ground is a vital element in determining fast and effective responses to major emergency incidents. However, during the last decade significant natural disaster and terrorism events have revealed serious deficiencies in the timely provision and sharing of critical information. Operational complexity combined with the shear volume and diversity of data sources and types, mean key information is often not available when it is most needed to inform decision making and improve outcomes.

Technology adoption requires an approach that integrates various systems to work together to provide the user agencies with a coherent solution. By utilising a geospatial computer-aided dispatch system as an integration platform, alarms, sensors, cameras and video feeds can be fused with operational data to form systems to meet evolving ‘all hazards' mitigation needs.　 This presentation will illustrate some of the key examples of these requirements and how geospatial technology is being deployed in anti-terrorism force protection, major event security, transportation security, and the protection key national infrastructure.